Opinion

Finally, Banff’s mayor and councillors are in line for a well deserved future pay increase. Here at the Outlook, we’ve favoured such an increase, particularly for the mayor’s position, since the issue was raised some time ago.

Well, Mother Nature won that one. Anyone who doubts the power of our natural environment should have no illusions after the flood event the Bow Valley recently endured.

It isn’t the situation that defines us; it’s our reactions that make a mark in the history books.

The news this week that PricewaterhouseCoopers is abandoning the process to establish an area structure plan for Three Sisters Mountain Village definitely creates more uncertainty around that land, which has languished over the past several years aft

A couple of weeks ago, we pondered whose hand was on the tiller when it came to health services in this province.

Question: Who gets behind the wheel, spends hours and hours on the road, sometimes from dawn to dusk, with stops every now and then to try and accomplish some work before moving on, while burning fuel as emissions drift over the landscape? Elsewhere

It was pretty tempting to fill this space with a rant, much like last week’s editorial, on how priorities seem out of whack when it comes to the spending of provincial bucks.

We had to laugh, here in the RMO office… But not in a good way. Not in a “that’s hilarious” way, with a deep belly laugh and loud guffaws. More in the sense of a laugh because it’s just too ridiculous.

For visitors embracing everything we have here in the Bow Valley this long weekend, and our own citizens as well, let’s get the busy summer season started off on the right foot, wildlife-wise. By wildlife-wise, we actually mean wise.

What’s wrong with this picture? On the one hand, our provincial government feels it necessary to shell out $350,000 of our tax dollars to mail out a glossy, full-colour brochure to 1.2 million Albertans to explain austerity budget measures.